{"id":3935,"date":"2011-09-24T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2011-09-05T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T20:57:05","slug":"surname-saturday-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/24\/surname-saturday-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Surname Saturday &#8211; Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we take a look at the lineage of the Richards surname as it pertains to my family&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4450\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4450\" title=\"Richards Family Portrait: Ann, Benjamin, May, and Frank\" src=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards_pic-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Richards Family Portrait: Ann, Benjamin, May, and Frank\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards_pic-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards_pic-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards_pic.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richards Family Portrait: Ann, Benjamin, May, and Frank<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Earliest Known Ancestor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My 3rd great-grandfather was Benjamin F. Richards.\u00c2\u00a0 Benjamin was born 14 May 1821 in Kentucky, and died 18 Jan 1911 in Eagle Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana.\u00c2\u00a0 He married Ann (nee Henderson or Smith) around 1858 and the couple had two children that survived to adulthood: Francis &#8220;Frank&#8221; Richards (1861 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1936) and my 2nd great-grandmother, the lovely May Richards (1866 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1959).<\/p>\n<p>The general Fisher research community seems to agree that the line goes back to Johannas Frederick Wolf Reichert who was 1660 in Augsburg, Wurtenberg, Germany.\u00c2\u00a0 He brought the family to the USA and died in 1748 in New Hanover, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.\u00c2\u00a0 Johannas would be my 7th great grandfather.\u00c2\u00a0 However, I have not done the research to prove this line fully.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4449\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4449\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4449\" title=\"Lineage of the Richards Family\" src=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards.jpg\" alt=\"Lineage of the Richards Family\" width=\"362\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards.jpg 362w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards-83x150.jpg 83w, https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/richards-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lineage of the Richards Family<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Lineage<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Marie Cole &gt; Douglass Lyal Cole &gt; Florence Mae Fitzgerald &gt; Jennie Mae Fisher (1909 &#8211; 1993) &gt; May Richards (1866 &#8211; 1959) &gt; Benjamin F. Richards (1821 &#8211; 1911) &gt; Samuel Richards (1794 &#8211; ) &gt; George Peter Richards (1755 &#8211; 1822) &gt; Matthias Reichert (1719 &#8211; 1775) &gt; Johannas Frederick Wolf Reichert (1660 &#8211; 1748)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Items of Interest<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benjamin and Ann Richards are listed on the 1910 US Census, Eagle Creek, Lake County, Indiana (ED 43, Sheet 4B, Lines 64-65).\u00c2\u00a0 Benjamin is 90 years old and his wife Ann is 82.\u00c2\u00a0 They have been married for 52 years, and had five children but only two survived.\u00c2\u00a0 Curiously, he is listed as being born in Ohio and his parents in &#8220;The United States.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 She is born in Ohio while her father was born in Vermont, and her mother in Tennessee.\u00c2\u00a0 I am very intrigued by the words under Benjamin&#8217;s occupation: &#8220;Own Income.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Was he independently wealthy?\u00c2\u00a0 Very interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Family Notes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d like to locate the three children of Benjamin and Ann Richards that did not survive that are listed on the 1910 Census.<\/li>\n<li>In a letter from Harold Richards to my father Douglass Cole dated April 30, 1982, he said that he thinks Benjamin and Ann may have had a baby girl that died young.<\/li>\n<li>Harold Richards also said that Benjamin Richards&#8217; father, possibly Samuel Richards, was &#8220;probably married twice.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d like to locate the graves for Benjamin and Ann Richards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Additional Information<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/trees.ancestry.com\/tree\/14846324\/person\/172688861\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ancestry Family Tree for Benjamin Richards<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we take a look at the lineage of the Richards surname as it pertains to my family&#8217;s history. Earliest Known Ancestor My 3rd great-grandfather was Benjamin F. Richards.\u00c2\u00a0 Benjamin was born 14 May 1821 in Kentucky, and died 18 Jan 1911 in Eagle Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana.\u00c2\u00a0 He married Ann (nee Henderson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy","category-surname-saturday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicagreen.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}